by Dan Brady | Feb 22, 2024 | Blog
Hardback books have always been popular. A 2019 poll on Goodreads revealed data to back this up: more than 40% of readers expressed a preference for hardback books over their paperback counterparts. Traditionally, indie authors didn’t have the option for...
by Dan Brady | Jan 30, 2023 | Blog, Royalties
This article explains how our royalty processes work at UK Book Publishing. Publisher compensation As a publisher, we receive “publisher compensation” payments from our distributors such as Amazon and Lightning Source. These are the ‘gross’ or...
by Ruth Lunn | Feb 2, 2022 | Ebooks
For authors with ebooks on Amazon, in your royalty report you may see up to three Amazon KDP lines for each ebook, each corresponding to the type of ebook sale: Standard – a regular purchase of your ebook. Free – Promotion – how many Amazon customers ordered...
by Dan Brady | Dec 14, 2020 | Blog, Marketing
So you’re published on Amazon, congratulations! But have you set up your Author Page? And why is that important? This article will help you get started. What is Author Central? Author Central is how Amazon allows authors to manage their presence on Amazon. And,...
by Ruth Lunn | Nov 12, 2020 | Editing and proofreading
When an author sends their finished manuscript to us, this is the start of an exciting process – publishing your book. And the first stage is usually copyediting or proofreading. First, let’s explain the difference: Proofreading a manuscript covers grammar, spelling,...
by Ruth Lunn | May 6, 2020 | Blog, Ebooks
One of the unexpected consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic has been the removal of VAT from ebooks. Previously, although printed books are zero-rated for VAT, ebooks and online subscriptions have not been exempted. In March, UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced this...
by Phoebe Bower | Sep 7, 2018 | Blog
An idea for a book can brew in your mind like a warm cup of tea but getting it down on a page is only half the job… Once a book is written, the next logical step is publishing. The development of independent publishing has opened the market to new authors who...
by Ugne Rinkeviciute | Aug 8, 2018 | Blog
One thing most employed people don’t have to deal with, but we creatives do, is legally protecting their projects – the babies of months and months of hard work. Unfortunately, as much as we’d like to build forts around our books and surround them with an army of...
by Ugne Rinkeviciute | Jul 16, 2018 | Blog
To know for sure how book reviews influence sales is hard to gauge. There are many factors that may lead people to purchase a book: boredom, amount of free time to fill, how long it’s been since their last pay day, an impending long train journey… However, there’s one...
by Ugne Rinkeviciute | Jul 12, 2018 | Blog
With the ever-growing number of self-publishing authors, effectively marketing your ebook really is the key to success. There are so many tools and methods available already, from self-promotion on social media to freebie chapters, that this entrepreneurial part of...
by Ruth Lunn | Apr 11, 2018 | Blog
There can be many things stopping us writing the book we’ve always wanted to write. One of these is how to actually organise your time and sit down to write the book. So many people have some really great ideas for a book, but never reach the point of getting the...
by Ruth Lunn | Apr 5, 2018 | Blog
As a writer in the world of self-publishing, you’re up against thousands of other books. It’s a super-competitive market, so your selling strategies need to be up to scratch to get the desired result. This includes making sure that Amazon’s algorithm rules are working...
by Ruth Lunn | Mar 28, 2018 | Blog
Goodreads is the world’s largest website for readers, authors and book recommendations. Readers can search for new books, new authors, share reviews, and keep track of what they’ve read. And because there are so many readers on the site, it’s a great place for authors...
by Dan Brady | Feb 28, 2018 | Blog
I came across a great podcast just the other day, where Steve Scott – an Amazon best-selling, self-published author – shares his experience and tips. If you’re writing a book, there’s some invaluable advice in this podcast, which shouldn’t be missed. Steve Scott has...
by Ruth Lunn | Oct 17, 2017 | Blog
We’ve come up with a nice little analogy about your book being on Amazon. Imagine your book as a product available in a shop on a shelf somewhere; it exists but it’s not out in the open for everyone to see. Sure, people might stumble across it by chance at some point...
by Ruth Lunn | Oct 12, 2017 | Book launch
Motivated by a promise made to Nelson Mandela to tell his story as a “true son of Africa”, President of the International Court of Arbitration and Mediation Kamil Idris has written and published his memoir, ‘My Nile Odyssey’. From growing up in Sudan as a child...
by Dan Brady | Sep 15, 2017 | Blog
In the UK, it’s every publisher’s obligation to send at least one copy of a published book, free of charge, to the British Library. This has been in English law for printed books and papers since 1662 (and for electronic publications since 2013). Since...
by Dan Brady | Jun 22, 2017 | Blog, Ebooks
When choosing categories for your Kindle ebook on Amazon, there are over 3,500 categories to choose from. Keywords are important – often it can be useful to target more specialist, niche subcategories, so that your ebook has a greater chance of ranking well. However,...
by Ruth Lunn | Oct 12, 2015 | Blog
One of the questions we get asked occasionally by some of our more optimistic and forward-thinking authors is in relation to film adaptation rights and I was reminded about this at the weekend when I went to see The Martian at the cinema. For those of you who don’t...
by Phoebe Bower | Aug 13, 2015 | Blog
If you’ve spent a great deal of time working on a project, it can be easy to fall into the trap of believing that it’s perfect. Unfortunately, this can hold you back and stop you from getting your book published if you’re sending it out to publishers and agents...
